A common question throughout students and teachers worldwide is, is intelligence something that is fixed or something that can grow or change? In the article “Brainology” by Carol Dweck we learn the process of how students learn to have a fixed mindset versus a growth mindset and how it affects their learning. It is believed that parents who praise their child for being smart in general tend to have a fixed mindset and those parents who praise their child for the hard work they did tend to have a growth mindset. Those with a fixed mindset tend to believe that intelligence is fixed and it can not be changed no matter how hard you try. Growth mindsets tend to believe intelligence is something that can be cultivated so that the harder they work
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I remember first day of freshman year walking into my first period class at 8 am, sitting down and in huge letters across the board it said Mrs. Hillis. As I sat down I was already very nervous due to my past experience in math and now being in a high school math class I felt it could not get much worse. As I sit there I turn to my left and hear the teacher pounding on her keyboard and sipping on her coffee very obnoxiously. The bell to start first period then rang and was so loud I nearly jumped out of my seat. The teacher stands up with a stack of papers in her hand and starts handing them out to all of the students, as she is walking around I am patiently waiting for mine and when she finally slams it on my desk I read the top line and it says Quiz 1. I instantly thought to myself how am I supposed to take a quiz when I know nothing about geometry. I start sweating and my hands become clammy as I read the first question and it says, “What is a ray?”, I start thinking to myself I have no clue what a ray is besides the water creature. At that point I had already gave up and just left the whole thing blank. The need to want to quit was something that I learned from being praised on being intelligent rather than on my hard work which has caused me to form a fixed
I remember first day of freshman year walking into my first period class at 8 am, sitting down and in huge letters across the board it said Mrs. Hillis. As I sat down I was already very nervous due to my past experience in math and now being in a high school math class I felt it could not get much worse. As I sit there I turn to my left and hear the teacher pounding on her keyboard and sipping on her coffee very obnoxiously. The bell to start first period then rang and was so loud I nearly jumped out of my seat. The teacher stands up with a stack of papers in her hand and starts handing them out to all of the students, as she is walking around I am patiently waiting for mine and when she finally slams it on my desk I read the top line and it says Quiz 1. I instantly thought to myself how am I supposed to take a quiz when I know nothing about geometry. I start sweating and my hands become clammy as I read the first question and it says, “What is a ray?”, I start thinking to myself I have no clue what a ray is besides the water creature. At that point I had already gave up and just left the whole thing blank. The need to want to quit was something that I learned from being praised on being intelligent rather than on my hard work which has caused me to form a fixed